1. How do you go about hiring new teachers? What do you look for in a teacher? Do you know if the teacher will be a good fit in your school when you hire them?
2. Do you work in a middle school that works through collaboration? How does it feel to be able to work with other teachers and to work on group units?
3. How has the one-to-one laptop initiative affected your school? Your teachers? The Students?
Barton, Lindsey
1. Do students play a role in designing the curriculum? If so, how active of a role? Do teachers have a framework where specific topics may be applied?
2. Are your students given an opportunity to participate in community activities, such as volunteer work?
3. Do students begin in new teams each year or do teachers loop with the students? Do you think teachers looping to the next grade with their students is beneficial or more difficult?
Brown, Ryanne
1. In what ways do you as principals work directly with the teachers? Are you in constant collaboration? How often are meetings, observations, evaluations, etc.?
2. How do you go about receiving feedback from students? Teachers? Community members/families of students?
3. What do you think are the most important traits for the teachers in your school to have, or what would you look for when making changes or additions to your staff?
Cooper, Marcy
1. Does your school publicly (within the school and the community) recognize the achievement of your students?
2. Are there mentoring opportunities incorporated/offered to the students? Both to be a mentor and to have a mentor?
3. As an administrator, what is the proudest accomplishment that your school has achieved that you either initiated or facilitated?
Dunne, Kaisha
1. What is an example of an interview that "WOW"ed you? By a new teacher? Or a veteran?
2. Sex, drugs, pregnancy, and drinking is more prevalent with todays students. How do you deal with the change in the loss of innocents in the middle school age students over the years?
3. What is your best advice for a Substitute entering into a new school district for classroom management?
Hawkins, Amber
1. How does your school approach inclusion in the classroom?
2. What do you look for when choosing a curriculum for your school?
3. What is your philosophy towards behavior management?
Hollingsworth, Tracey
1. Where would you like to see education ten years from now? Why?
2. Over the last 10 years, what are the biggest changes you've seen in education in terms of students, teachers, administrators, & politics/law?
3. How do the needs of students change between middle school and high school?
Kinney, Lydia
1. What are the biggest challenges for administrators?
2. Is there a specific trait that successful middle school teachers have?
3. What are the biggest concerns for education in terms of politics/law? Why?
Knowles, Christina
1.What is the most applied for teaching position at a middle school?
2. What does an applicant have to do to apply for a teaching job?
3.How often do you interact with the students?
Lennon, Stephanie
1. In what ways do you involve parents and the community?
2. How does your school deal with parent-teacher conferences? Are they lead by the teachers or the students?
3. How is the average school day scheduled? Do you think it works well? Is there anything you would change about it?
Richardson, Cassandra
1. What qualities and/or training are required or ideal for becoming an administrator? Are most administrators formally trained as subject-based teachers with additional degrees geared towards higher education positions?
2. What is the ideal relationship between teachers and principals/vice principals? Is this a reasonably attainable situation?
3. What is your favorite part of your job?
Robinson, Lincoln
1. What inspired you to become an administrator? Where did you begin your career?
2. What is the most meaningful educational change that you've initiated?
3. What are your feelings on standardized testing and how it is influencing the distribution of government funding to school districts based on test performance?
Tibbetts, Courtney
1. Does your school provide a variety of field trips in order to create bonding amongst students and teachers?
2. How big of a role do standardized tests have in creating your curriculum?
3. Do you think career choices should be included in a middle school curriculum? Or should that be geared towards high school students?
Trautvetter, Jennifer
1. Does your school operate like a "true" middle school (teams, integration, advisory etc.) and if so, what is the hardest obstacle to overcome with that type of structure?
2. Do you have any school policies on technology in the school? In other words, are there set rules for bringing cell phones, iPods, personal laptops into the school/classroom?
3. How does the slipping economy affected your school?
2. Do you work in a middle school that works through collaboration? How does it feel to be able to work with other teachers and to work on group units?
3. How has the one-to-one laptop initiative affected your school? Your teachers? The Students?
2. Are your students given an opportunity to participate in community activities, such as volunteer work?
3. Do students begin in new teams each year or do teachers loop with the students? Do you think teachers looping to the next grade with their students is beneficial or more difficult?
2. How do you go about receiving feedback from students? Teachers? Community members/families of students?
3. What do you think are the most important traits for the teachers in your school to have, or what would you look for when making changes or additions to your staff?
2. Are there mentoring opportunities incorporated/offered to the students? Both to be a mentor and to have a mentor?
3. As an administrator, what is the proudest accomplishment that your school has achieved that you either initiated or facilitated?
2. Sex, drugs, pregnancy, and drinking is more prevalent with todays students. How do you deal with the change in the loss of innocents in the middle school age students over the years?
3. What is your best advice for a Substitute entering into a new school district for classroom management?
2. What do you look for when choosing a curriculum for your school?
3. What is your philosophy towards behavior management?
2. Over the last 10 years, what are the biggest changes you've seen in education in terms of students, teachers, administrators, & politics/law?
3. How do the needs of students change between middle school and high school?
2. Is there a specific trait that successful middle school teachers have?
3. What are the biggest concerns for education in terms of politics/law? Why?
2. What does an applicant have to do to apply for a teaching job?
3.How often do you interact with the students?
2. How does your school deal with parent-teacher conferences? Are they lead by the teachers or the students?
3. How is the average school day scheduled? Do you think it works well? Is there anything you would change about it?
2. What is the ideal relationship between teachers and principals/vice principals? Is this a reasonably attainable situation?
3. What is your favorite part of your job?
2. What is the most meaningful educational change that you've initiated?
3. What are your feelings on standardized testing and how it is influencing the distribution of government funding to school districts based on test performance?
2. How big of a role do standardized tests have in creating your curriculum?
3. Do you think career choices should be included in a middle school curriculum? Or should that be geared towards high school students?
2. Do you have any school policies on technology in the school? In other words, are there set rules for bringing cell phones, iPods, personal laptops into the school/classroom?
3. How does the slipping economy affected your school?